On Saturday night my niece Kristin from Washington State posted this message on my Facebook wall at 6:32 PM:
Post office has something for you and is threatening to send it back. Grrr. Will try to fix as soon as I get home.
At 11:37 she posted again on my wall:
I can't fix it. Too late tonight and Monday is a holiday. Please go to the post office on Tuesday AM and receive your package.
On Sunday morn I received both messages and posted the following message at 5:26 AM on Kristen's wall:
I WILL GO FIRST THING ON TUESDAY MORN.....Don't worry, Kris.
Her reply at 11:40 am:
Thank you, I am so excited I could explode!!!
My reply at 12:42 pm:
Don't explode....please.
Her reply:
Tomorrow is Tuesday!!!!!! Yeah,, yippeee, Big huge grin on my face!!!! I feel like a kid at Christmas....if I go to bed now does that make the morning come faster????? We love you.
My reply:
It's 5:41 Tuesday morning....I can't wait till the post office opens.
After reading all these messages on the wall, would you not be excited? I couldn't imagine what would be in the package....maybe a tour guide to the Northwest...or some books she thought I might enjoy? Ummmmm.
At 7 AM I rushed down the street to the post office. Although the door was open, the postmaster doesn't open the window till 8:30 or 9 all depending on when he has sorted the mail into the various boxes. (Yes, I live in a small town....and the postmaster makes his own rules.) So I go around back and knock on the window. He smiles through the glass and for a minute I think he's going to go back to sorting the mail. But instead he walks over to a counter on the far wall and picks up a box from Amazon and walks over to the door.
"I think this is what you want, Bob. Next time if it's an UPS delivery you need to give them your home address not your post office box."
Running back to the car, I ride the half mile home.....slip and slide going up the walkway...and before I can tear into the package, two kitties greet me with loud meows...I forgot to feed them. I place the box on the table....open two cans of 9 Lives Prime Grill with Real Beef and load the dishes. Then I get out my scissors and this is what I found.
Oh, this is such a wonderful prize. This girl, despite being 65 years old, is movin' right into the 21st century head on. This will come in so handy when I travel back and forth to Oz. Hell, it will come in handy waiting in doctor's offices, on the train to Boston, and the ferry to the Vineyard. Have Kindle....will travel.
Actually, in Oz, it will really be wonderful. Paperbacks in Oz are so damn expensive....almost twice the price of ours. Books that sell for $13.95 in America, you pay $24 or $25 for in the Land Down Under.
Thank you, Kristin, David and Heidi......your the BEST.
Heidi and Kristin
Heidi
My niece and grandniece at Newport, RI when they spent a week with me over a year ago. Sorry, David....you weren't here that fabulous week....you were off in Iraq fighting a war.
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I often wonder at the name Kindle... like a small piece of kindling wood that ignites a fire.... you think?...
ebooks are the future. Downloaded 2 yesterday, 10 this month - for a fraction of paper price and no shipping - and a friend sent me 6 books. So I have read all but 6 of the books so far. One more book today, and the others in March.
I often wonder at the name Kindle... like a small piece of kindling wood that ignites a fire.... you think? Yes, yes, I like that idea....a fire in your brain.
I can't wait to start using it.
Enjoy!
bob, I really have found the Kindle to be wonderful and it's so easy to travel with too.
I have heard that all the books published before like 1930's are free downloads. That itself is enough reason to enjoy a kindle or a nook. Have some fun--and revisit all the incredible classics...
Wilka
Elizabeth, you will love using the Kindle, I just updated the software via wi-fi after Amazon sent me an e-mail notifying me of the available upgrade. Funny thing, I do not have wi-fi, I did go to Pier One to replace two glasses I broke last week, while there I turned on the wi-fi and viola, automatically I was updated. What a wonderful time to be alive. Now do not get me wrong I do not steal wi-fi so many businesses are unlocked and Cambridge has hot spots everywhere, anyway, I am switching to Cable internet with wi-fi after my Verizon contract terminates at the end of June. Woo-Hoo! I repeat, what a wonderful time to be alive!
Enjoy your Kindle Elizabeth! I love mine!
Enjoy!
seriously, kindles are great - i'm sure you'll enjoy it immensely.
I will look at your offerings! (:
Wilka
Featured in the Triple Name Club.
Thanks for the feature in Triple Name Club.
Then I became a business woman and bath time turned to quick showers...I got into the quick shower mode and have never been able to go back to the long soaks....:-(
I know your going to enjoy your Kindle.
I think you should share with your grandson....chapter books are so expensive for that age group and they go through them so fast.
The mind-change came when I tried to read Ken Follett's latest blockbuster when it came out last Autumn. The damned thing was so heavy, it was almost impossible to read it comfortably without developing pains in my hands and wrists. So, that gave the idea for the gift.
I am absolutely in love with the thing! I have dowloaded lots of free stuff (mostly classics) - and from Gutenberg I dowloaded the whole of a series of books I first read when I was about 10 or 11. I've also dowloaded Mrs Beeton, too.
I have to confess - I bought a stiff kindle cover, which makes it more like holding a book, rather than the one-page tablet effect of the 'bare' kindle.
I am going to love it even more when I face long plane journeys, like to Oz or the far east! My trip to oz last year was business class, and the entire extra luggage allowance was made up of BOOKS.
I'm trying to persuade my sister in Aus to buy a kindle as she, like me, goes through books at a rate of knots. I usually have 3 or 4 on the go at the same time.